Some say Taylor Swift is doing too much. What if she just loves her job?

It's a good day to be a Swiftie, but these days, that's hardly unusual.

On Friday, Taylor Swift released "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore," a deluxe version of her 2025 album, featuring four brand-new tracks. Two days later, the music video for "Patient Zero" will premiere at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Now, "The Life of a Showgirl" is far from my favorite album, but I'm hardly the type to turn down fresh music. Indeed, "It's a good day to be a Swiftie" has almost become a stock phrase in my Swift-friendly group chats, thanks to the pop star's peerless prolificacy.

Swift has released five studio albums in the last six years alone, in addition to four "Taylor's Version" rerecords and a generous helping of No. 1 hits. She announced the "Showgirl" deluxe on Wednesday — shocking and delighting fans who didn't expect to receive new music so soon.

Of course, as with everything Swift does, it's a polarizing move. Not everyone is quite so charmed by her output.

There's a popular, exasperated narrative that's plagued Swift since the 2023-2024 Eras Tour dominated the cultural landscape and became the highest-grossing tour of all time. It also yielded two concert films, a docuseries, a best-selling book, and two new albums: Swift released the 31-track behemoth "The Tortured Poets Department" in the middle of her two-year trek, and its successor, "Showgirl," mere months after her final bow.

Now, a year after she pledged that its 12-song tracklist was set in stone, Swift has added four more songs — written and recorded during a celebratory trip with her Swedish collaborators, she said, after "Showgirl" sold more copies in its first week than any other album in history.

"Really, we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in," Swift explained in her announcement, "but there was a studio there, and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs."

So the popular narrative among critics — and people who find her annoying — goes something like this: Taylor Swift is doing too much. She's too obsessed with attention. Can't she just ease up, chill out, and take a break for once?

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